HomePod To Achieve New Options This Fall

With the HomePod, Apple has dipped their toes into the sensible speaker waters. Nevertheless, judging from the experiences we’ve seen, it has barely made a dent out there which continues to be largely dominated by the likes of Amazon and Google, who’ve launched sensible audio system which can be decidedly extra feature-rich.

The excellent news for HomePod house owners and would-be house owners is that it seems like Apple has plans to do one thing about it. Whereas no official announcement was made throughout Apple’s iPhone occasion, the corporate did replace its HomePod web site wherein they revealed that the speaker can be gaining some new options and performance this fall.

Beginning on the 30th of September, the primary change that HomePod house owners can anticipate is the addition of 100,000 radio stations, which means that by asking Siri, customers will have the ability to tune into quite a lot of radio stations embrace iHeartRadio9, Radio.com, and TuneIn, though it is going to require an Apple ID or Apple Music to perform.

The web site additionally reveals that different options coming to the HomePod embrace Ambient Sounds, the place customers can request seems like ocean waves, forest birds, rainstorms, and so forth. It has additionally steered that multi-user assist for as much as six customers may be within the works. There is no such thing as a date on when these options will arrive besides to say within the fall, so we’ll be conserving our eyes peeled.